Getting a Rational Grip on Religion Daniel C. Dennett hopes that his book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon will end the conviction that details based in religion are off-limits to scientific inquiry.

Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover Area School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design -- a religious theory -- as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional.

The Quaker Migration: Friends Find Peace in Pennyslvania When the Restoration Parliament enacted the Clarendon Code, its restrictive provisions effectively criminalized the practice of the nonconformist church. In search of tolerance for themselves and others, through the late 1600s thousands of Quakers found a new life in the Delaware Valley.

Artifact: A Pogrom for Tea The smashing of a Malaysian cult religion founder's two-story teapot gives the world a startling image of paranoia and intolerance -- evidence that when religious liberty is lost, so too are imagination and whimsy.

Evolution Battles Continue The battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools in the United States reached a fervor this week, as a number of prominent scientists testified in an ongoing court trial that pits evolution against intelligent design.